Here’s why a ban on abortions after 20 weeks is a bad idea

Steve Benen over at The Maddow blog has provided links to a couple of good arguments against banning 20-week abortions.

The first is THIS ONE from Andrew Rosenthal:

The way the Catholic Association mentions “late-term” abortions, you might think the only women who had them were lazy and callous, just waiting around until the last second for no good reason.

But as Cecile Richards, the head of Planned Parenthood, told me in an email, nearly 99 percent of abortions occur before 21 weeks; abortions later on often involve rare, severe fetal abnormalities and real threats to a woman’s health. In ...

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Steve Benen over at The Maddow blog has provided links to a couple of good arguments against banning 20-week abortions.

The first is THIS ONE from Andrew Rosenthal:

The way the Catholic Association mentions “late-term” abortions, you might think the only women who had them were lazy and callous, just waiting around until the last second for no good reason.

But as Cecile Richards, the head of Planned Parenthood, told me in an email, nearly 99 percent of abortions occur before 21 weeks; abortions later on often involve rare, severe fetal abnormalities and real threats to a woman’s health. In ...